Environmental and Organizational Factors Associated with Elbow/Forearm and Hand/Wrist Disorder among Sewing Machine Operators of Garment Industry in Ethiopia

Table 5

Prevalence of elbow/forearm and hands/wrist MS disorders among sewing machine operators in the last 12 months in garment industries in Galan City, Oromia Regional State, 2012.

	Symptoms by anatomical body site
	Elbow/forearm disorder, (%)	Hand/wrist disorder, (%)
Trouble in the past 12 months
Yes	169 (40.0)	159 (37.7)
No	253 (60.0)	263 (62.3)
Total length of MS disorder trouble
1–7 days	34 (8.1)	37 (8.8)
8–30 days	40 (9.4)	36 (8.5)
>30 days, but not every day	70 (16.6)	50 (11.8)
Every day	25 (5.9)	36 (8.5)